Collaborate Disseminate
The idea is simple enough; soldiers of the future will need to carry maximum energy at minimal weight to feed the host of mission-critical electrical hardware they’ll wear, stash and carry by hand through the field. Amprius claims its ultra-dense batte… Continue reading Ultra-high density battery vests give next-gen soldiers twice the energy
CATL made headlines around the globe last August when it presented the Shenxing battery, an LFP pack capable of adding 400 kilometers (249 miles) of range in a mere 10 minutes at the charger. Not a year later, and that pack’s powering actual cars. This… Continue reading CATL’s 1,000-km LFP EV battery super-charges at 1 km/sec
Battery technology is the major limiting factor for the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and grid-level energy storage. Marginal improvements have been made for lithium cells in the past decade …read more Continue reading Implantable Battery Charges Itself
Sometimes, whether we like it or not, ordering PCBs results in extra PCBs lying around, either because of board house minimums, mistakes on either end, or both. What’s to be …read more Continue reading Cyberpunk Guitar Strap Lights Up with Repurposed PCBs
We’re still in the early days of modern EV infrastructure, so minor issues can lead to a full high voltage pack replacement given the lack of high voltage-trained mechanics. [Ed’s …read more Continue reading Tearing into a Sparky Sandwich
A LiIon pack might just be exactly what you need for powering a device of yours. Whether it’s a laptop, or a robot, or a custom e-scooter, a CPAP machine, …read more Continue reading Ultimate Power: Lithium-Ion Packs Need Some Extra Circuitry
At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, …read more Continue reading Ultimate Power: Lithium-Ion Batteries In Series
Last summer, I was hanging out with a friend from Netherlands for a week, and in the middle of that week, we decided to go on a 20 km bike …read more Continue reading Lithium-Ion Batteries Power Your Devboards Easily
Rad Power Bikes already ensures that all of its models meet UL safety standards, but has now gone further with the introduction of the Safe Shield Battery, which incorporates technology designed to protect against overheating.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading One affordable ebike battery that won’t burn your house down
Street sledding, a popular pastime in Norway, is an activity that is slowly dwindling in popularity, at least as far as [Justin] aka [Garage Avenger] has noticed. It used to …read more Continue reading Bringing Modern Technology to a Sled